Thursday morning we headed out early for New Glarus, WI. We took all the back roads from Beloit to New Glarus and the drive was magnificent. I had no idea the farmlands of Wisconsin were so beautiful; the lawns and fields were still so lush and green.
When we arrived at New Glarus we found a quaint little Swiss like village with very friendly people www.swisstown.com . We had lunch in a small chalet where we dined on locally homemade bratwurst and kraut. After lunch we stopped at some of the shops where we found some Christmas ornaments for the kids and grand kids. We are collecting ornaments from all the various places we visit and will trim the tree with them while we are at Disney.
Of course we had to take a quick look around the chocolate shop. Fortunately we were still full from lunch so were able to bypass all the tempting candies. We didn't fare so well in the local bakery. We walked in and I felt like I must be in Rose's (from the Golden Girls) hometown.
We found things like Fastnacht Kucheli ...a rich pie crust pastry that the locals call "Knee Patches", and Bienensticla which is a sweet dough with a honey almond glaze and a Bavarian cream filling. We did breakdown and buy 1 of these to share....YUM!
Next we hiked up the hill (I had this overpowering urge to yodel as I climbed the hill; Salt was a little embarrassed but he is getting used to my eccentric ways after 19 years) to the Swiss Heritage Museum. www.swissheritage.org/ We are learning a lot about a section of America we have not traveled prior to this trip.
Well Blogger isn't letting me post pictures right now so I will post them later.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
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salt and kitty
melanie here! i blog too, and am glad to see and hear all the excitement you two are having... sorry to have missed you on Grindstone this summer... you would have thought being there two weeks would have given us all the time in the world.... oh well..
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